Failure of the discrete maximum principle for an elliptic finite element problem

DOI10.1090/S0025-5718-04-01651-5zbMath1074.65129MaRDI QIDQ4821037

L. Ridgway Scott, Todd F. Dupont, Andrei Drăgănescu

Publication date: 7 October 2004

Published in: Mathematics of Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet problem; finite element; Laplace equation; discrete maximum principle; mesh refinement; discrete Green's function; discrete harmonic functions; boundary maximum principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

65N12: Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs

65N30: Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs

35J05: Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation

65N50: Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs